A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

The Python Package Index briefly suspended the creation of new projects on Thursday to mitigate threat activity involving a large-scale typosquatting campaign and hundreds of malicious python packages ...

PyPI has long been the go-to source for various kinds of Python modules, libraries, and applications. One of the PyPI maintainers, Dustin Ingram, wanted to discuss some ideas for providing namespaces ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue.

In the early 2000s, several Python developers wrote and ran their own tools cataloging and linking to available Python packages. In 2002, Richard Jones successfully proposed PEP 301 to create an ...

PyPI, a vital repository for open source developers, temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any ...

PyPI, the official third-party registry of open source Python packages has temporarily suspended new users from signing up, and new projects from being uploaded to the platform until further notice.

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository of third-party open-source Python projects announced plans to mandate two-factor authentication requirement for maintainers of ...

Compromised MemTensor npm and PyPI packages deliver sckit, a Go-based stealer targeting cloud, registry, source-code, and developer credentials.